Organizational Stress: A Review and Critique of Theory, Research, and Applications

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SAGE Publications, Feb 7, 2001 - Business & Economics - 270 pages

This book examines stress in organizational contexts. The authors review the sources and outcomes of job-related stress, the methods used to assess levels and consequences of occupational stress, along with the strategies that might be used by individuals and organizations to confront stress and its associated problems. One chapter is devoted to examining an extreme form of occupational stress--burnout, which has been found to have severe consequences for individuals and their organizations. The book closes with a discussion of scenarios for jobs and work in the new millennium, and the potential sources of stress that these scenarios may generate.

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Contents

What Is Stress?
1
JobRelated Sources of Strain
27
Assessing JobRelated Strains
61
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Philip Dewe is Emeritus Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London. He graduated with a Masters degree in management and administration from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand and with an MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics. After a period of work in commerce in New Zealand he became a Senior Research Officer in the Work Research Unit, Department of Employment (UK). In 1980 he joined Massey University in New Zealand and headed the Department of Human Resource Management until joining the Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London in 2000. Research interests include work stress and coping, emotions and human resource accounting. He is a member of the editorial board of Work & Stress. He has written widely in the area of work stress and coping. Michael P. O'Driscoll is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, where he taught courses in organizational psychology and organizational research methods for over 35 years. His primary research interests were job stress and coping, including workplace bullying, and work-life balance, and more generally the relationship between work and health. Since his retirement in 2017 he has actively contributed to Grey Power, an organisation which advocates for the health and well-being of older people in New Zealand.

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